As Paul Ryan has pointed out, the Democrats had the opportunity to fix the immigration issue when they had a full majority congress.

.@SpeakerRyan: "Don't forget for a second here, when @BarackObama was president for a while he had 60 votes in the Senate and a huge majority in the House, and he didn't do anything to fix the broken immigration system. Nothing. And they had total control of government." pic.twitter.com/8UUHWgYg9r

This is what former President Barack Obama had to say (H/T buzzfeed.com)

Former President Barack Obama is weighing in on the ongoing US–Mexico border crisis in which thousands of children have been separated from their parents. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, he began, “Today is World Refugee Day.”

Obama then asked Americans to be empathetic to the undocumented border-crossers. “If you’ve been fortunate enough to have been born in America, imagine for a moment if circumstance had placed you somewhere else.”

He also asked anyone reading the post: “Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents’ arms, or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together?”

Wait a min…is Barack Obama trying to pull a fast one? Clearly his own DHS secretary admitted that they expanded family detention centers under his watch.

This crisis started with the Obama administration and President Trump’s attempt to fix the problem is unsurprisingly scorned in the media.